[Sudan Tribune]Khartoum -The spokesperson of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) Colonel Al-Sawarmi Khalid Sa'ad announced on Wednesday that they plan to release five Prisoners of War (POW) from South Sudan's People Liberation Army (SPLA).

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Sudan's threat to shut down South Sudan's oil exports over its alleged support for rebels in Sudan will not spark a return to armed hostility as long as Sudan respects a security agreement reached earlier this year, a South Sudanese military official said Monday. South Sudanese army spokesman Col. Philip Aguer sa...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan is warning that it may stop exporting oil through Sudan's pipelines again. An official in South Sudan's oil ministry told The Associated Press that Sudan has blocked the export of South Sudanese oil. The official insisted he not be identified because he is not authorized to release the information. .

[Sudan Tribune]Khartoum -The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir said today he ordered oil minister Awad al-Jaz to block the pipeline carrying South Sudan's crude all the way to Red Sea coastal city of Port Sudan.

[Deutsche Welle]Sudan has downplayed allegations by South Sudan that its troops crossed into the buffer zone between the two countries, and denies it is now backpedaling on a peace agreement meant to ease the flow of oil between them.

Rebels in Sudan’s oil-producing border state of South Kordofan said on Tuesday, April 16 they had seized a military base near the state capital, underlining tensions in the region that could undermine the recent detente between Sudan and South Sudan, Reuters reported. Sudan and South Sudan split apart in July 2011 under a peace deal The...

[Sudan Tribune]Khartoum -Sudan's minister of industry, Abdel Wahab Mohamed Osman, declared this week that the government has no option but to privatize several sugar factories in order to obtain financial resources allowing it to expand and increase productivity.

[Sudan Tribune]Khartoum -Sudan's minister of oil, Awad Ahmed Al-jaz, has handed over official letters to oil companies operating in transfer and export of South Sudan's oil through Sudanese territories ordering them to stop transfer and export operations of the southern oil within 60 days starting on June 9, 2013.

[VOA]South Sudan's Minister of Information Barnaba Marial Benjamin has accused Sudan of using "blackmail" and "hostage taking" to talk about unilaterally abrogating internationally-sponsored agreements between the two countries.

[ERTA]The Chairperson of the African Union, Haile Mariam Desalegn who is also the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, said he is making contacts with the Government of South Sudan in collaboration with the AU High Implementation Panel to work out proposals to address the situation between Sudan and South Sudan in the wake of Khartoum's announceme...

[Sudan Tribune]Khartoum -Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir has reiterated his intention to step at the end of his term in 2015, saying Sudan is in need of "fresh blood". In an interview with Qatar's Al Shraq newspaper due to be published on Wednesday, Bashir said deliberations were now under way within the National Congress Party (...

[Radio Dabanga]Khartoum -The opposition National Consensus Forces described Khartoum's announcement to form a special "strategic battalion" to counter a possible attack of the rebel Sudan Revolutionary Front on Khartoum, as "a serious threat to the homeland and the lives and safety of citizens".

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Twenty-four people died in a battle between South Sudan's military and rebel fighters the government believes to be supported by neighboring Sudan, while a tribe-on-tribe cattle-raiding attack elsewhere in the country killed 27 people, officials said Monday. A battle in Jonglei state on Sunday killed 20 rebel fig...

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D, NY) recently told The New York Times that background checks wouldn’t really do much to stop criminals. That doesn’t change the fact that she still wants to push through stricter gun control legislation. She said, “I think trafficking can be the base of the bill, the rock on which everything else. I also thi...

Welcome to the summer of the judges. The next few months likely will be dominated by news about some of the biggest reality competitions on television – and not who is going to win them, but who is going to be sitting at the judges' tables. For...

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A Sudanese military spokesman says a military training helicopter has crashed in the country's south, killing its two crew members. Col. Sawarmy Khalid was quoted on Thursday by SUNA, Sudan's official news agency, as saying that the crash was an accident. Khalid says the helicopter hit a high voltage electricity po...

[IRIN]Juba -Through frequent door-to-door polio immunization campaigns, South Sudan has vaccinated more than 94 percent of children under age five against the disease, according to the Ministry of Health. The immunization effort has been one of the country's few health success stories since it achieved independence a year and a half ago.

The "Idol" results are in ... and Lazaro is going home. The fan (but not judges') favorite wound up with Amber Holcomb were in the Bottom 2. After the "Idol" results were announced, Lazaro sang "Feelin' Good" for the judges' save, but Keith, Nicki, Randy and Mariah were not in agreement about keeping him around. More...

Federal judges may be closer to winning promised cost-of-living adjustments after the U.S. Supreme Court declined cert last month in an appeal by six present and former federal judges. The judges in Beer v. United States claimed the failure to pay COLA increases for six different years amounted to a…...

Rumor has it that “American Idol” has fired all four judges around the same time that Randy Jackson announced he would be voluntarily leaving the show. It looks like producers are just as fed up with the diva antics and wishy washy feedback as the rest of us are. Sources say that the show is ready to cut all four of the judges from the sh...

“Remember this day everybody; a star was born.” That’s what judge L.A. Reid said after 13-year-old Carly Rose Sonenclar took The X Factor stage in Providence, Rhode Island — and brought the house down. At first, though, judges looked doubtful — especially when Carly announced she’d be singing “Feeling Good”...

ISLAMABAD: After knocking out many a politician on the dual nationality issue, judges of the superior courts are all set to be paid back in kind when the upper house of parliament starts debate on the applicability of the dual nationality restriction on judges. “We want to lift the lid on the apex court’s judges who may hold dual national...

Judges have to be judicious when using social networking sites, according to an ABA ethics opinion. Judges who participate in social networking sites must heed the ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct, cautions Formal Opinion 462 (PDF). That means the judges should avoid contacts that would undermine their independence, integrity, or impart...

BERKELEY, MO (KTVI)– One week after tornadoes steam rolled through the St. Louis area volunteers plan to meet to continue the big job of cleaning up. There are so many homes with limbs down. Althea Clay has big tree limbs scattered all over her backyard. She said, “I am very overwhelmed, I’m frustrated I’m overwhelmed, I’m a little pertur...

[UN News]The International Donor Conference for Reconstruction and Development in Darfur wrapped up today with calls from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the Government of Sudan to demonstrate its commitment to the region and to facilitate humanitarian and development work there.

The chief judges of Washington, D.C.’s superior and appeals courts marked Law Day by answering questions on Twitter for an hour. The judges fielded questions on topics ranging from jury duty to legal careers, according to The BLT: The Blog of Legal…...

The Sensible Sentencing Trust have launched their Judge the Judges website I have some mixed feelings on this. I don’t like the personal focus on some individual Judges, and especially do not like the inclusion of their photos on the site. Having said that, in the age of televised trials many Judges have appeared on the TV news. Some of t...

[Sudan Tribune]Juba -South Sudanese president Salva Kiir Mayardit says he will no longer tolerate members of his cabinet accusing the government they serve in of corruption, arbitrary arrest and human rights issues.